Hello! Today I played a game with a player after two months of preparing. The game would be checkmated if not my opponent’s resign. This is the game:https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/30948582163 At the beginning I was winning, lost in the ...
Hello! Today I’ll tell you what common position is a trap. This is the position: Well, you can lose four points (3 for the knight that will be captured, 1 for the pawn). This position can lead to checkmate: Those are tunnels that your opponen...
Hello! Today I’ll tell you what describes bots. Beginner Blunders or Grandmaster Checkmates. If a bot is 400 rated, it will make horrible blunders, but a 2700 one (if there is) will checkmate with strong checkmates. No Brain. Bots do what their...
Hello! Today I’ll tell you how to win the opening positionally for black. In the part for white you saw e4, because it’s the most common. Black also needs to defend the center. After e4, Black can reply with: e5, d5 (but we’ll skip that because...
Hello! Today I’ll tell you how to win the opening. It’s the best to focus on those squares: It is the center of the board with center pawns. Those are wing pawns: You can use them to control the center, too. How to start your game (focusing on...
Hello! Today I played three games (one lost, two won) and this is one of them:https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/28871394709 And here move 12, black e5 helped me. When I captured it, I did a fork that I wanted to do, and got a pawn. My opp...
Hello! Today I played two games with checkmates like from puzzles. This is one of them: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/28440544639 And the puzzle (similar): The next game:https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/28440601723 The puzz...
Hello! As I played over 800 games, I know that engines don’t understand sacrifices! In today’s game, I sacrificed for checkmate. But my opponent didn’t capture the knight, and I got “Blunder” or “Inaccuracy” or “Mistake”. Yet none of my sacrif...
Hello! Today I played a game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/28006188059 In many other games I lost or drawn without thinking about wins. This game was other. After I joined a Daily Tournament, I got to Live and clicked “Play”. At...
Hello! Today, I will show you how to defeat the Italian Game. This is the Italian Game: We can treat the knight: Or the Four Knights: Or still develop: And checkmate! But if your opponent won’t do such moves… Did you like my new blog...
Why do I switched openings from the Polish Opening to the Ware Opening? Because I could: And capturing the rook would be black’s blunder. This is the Polish Opening and why I used it: Did you like my new blog? Please share in the comments an...
Hello! Today, I understood for the first time… Antichess. What makes it so special? No checks. Kings are normal pieces, so forks and King pins not here. You get 3 points for a king. 4 Player Chess. Antichess is in 4 Player Chess, but it has lots...
Hello! I switched my opening from Polish Opening which opened the left bishop to the Ware Opening, because it is secure enough for queen attacks. This is the Polish Opening: This is the Ware Opening: And this is the Ware Opening: Meadow Hay Tr...
Hello! As you probably heard that I made forks in games, here is the most recent one (I lost on timeout): https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/26970017509 I had forks here, too. FORK PUZZLES 1. 2. 3. 4 player chess puzzle: How t...
Hello! Today, I made more puzzles. Black prepares to attack the a1 rook. White tries to checkmate, but ends up with a fork. A simple puzzle: find checkmate: Stalemate the endgame puzzle: You probably saw that queen exchange, but the puzzle w...
Hello! Today I will show you pawn and piece chains puzzles in the endgame. 1: Black’s chain is in parts, while white has a full one. How to deliver or avoid checkmate? White has to avoid checkmate, the bishop wins a queen. Black’s reply-? ...
Hello! In the past week, I played games, and I lost only one! My rating grew to 515, while in the past I wished I would have my 470, because I had 450. I chose my good old losing Polish Opening. Really losing? No! It is great for the bishop tric...
Hello! Today I played a rapid game:https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/24811849125 The game had a complicated position, I blundered a pawn, my opponent made a queen mistake and I captured it, there was a lot of exchanges, the endgame started...
Hello! Today I wanted to show you a trap in the King’s Pawn Opening: The Whale Variation. This is the whale variation: The first part of the trap is the knight: The knight needs to attack the pawn. The second part is the queen: And the trap ...
Hello! Today, as always, I played a rapid game:https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/24120432901 In the beginning I made a mistake and lost material, but a few moves later regained it. As always, I captured my opponent’s pieces, saw and used a...
Hello! Today I played two games with the same opponent. Here is the first one:https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/24035199149 I started with the Polish Opening, but got the reply e5, so it was Polish Opening: 1…e5. I was losing material all ...
Hello! Today I played a game with the Center Game Accepted: Danish Gambit, 3…dxc3. Here it is: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/23690437367 Yes, I missed checkmate once. Now, the openings. It started with the very popular King’s Pawn Ope...
Hello! Today I played three games with the same player. Here is the first: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/23605193443 I began with the Polish Opening. Then I chose to move b5, so the Bishop attacks the black bishop. I was thinking that...
Hello! In this article I’m going to show you a position from my game: So what is the best move? One of the best is: Black can reply: Or: Or: So the best move is: And then: Black can’t capture the knight because of the rook. It was ...
It was the beginning of my losing……I exchanged queens with yellow to defend from checkmate but the Red bishop was still there, I couldn’t capture it. It wanted my rook……I knew it, but I still wouldn’t capture it.Red and Yellow didn’t look as they...
